400 m FARO
FARO Focus Premium Max
Longest-range Focus: 400 m, ±1 mm, perpetual Flash Technology licence.
Rangeup to 400 mRanging error±1 mmFlash scanunder 30 s
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Serving Houston, Texas
Buy survey & mapping equipment in Houston.
Survey-grade GNSS receivers, terrestrial and handheld scanners, and mapping drones for surveyors, industrial contractors, and AEC firms across Houston and the Gulf Coast.
Serving Pasadena · Baytown · Sugar Land · Pearland · League City · Missouri City and the wider Houston-Galveston region and the Texas Gulf Coast.
What we supply in Houston
Equipment for the Houston-Galveston region and the Texas Gulf Coast
Handheld LiDAR Handheld LiDAR scanners for mobile mapping
Handheld LiDAR SLAM scanners let you walk a site and capture it as a measurable point cloud, indoors or out, without satellite reception and without pre-placed targets.
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GNSS / RTK Survey GNSS & RTK rovers
Multi-constellation IMU-RTK rovers and base stations built for survey and construction, with centimetre accuracy and tilt compensation.
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Mapping Drones · UAV LiDAR · DJI Drones for surveying & mapping, UAV LiDAR & photogrammetry
Professional mapping UAVs and LiDAR/photogrammetry payloads that collect survey-grade data in far fewer field days.
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3D Laser Scanners Terrestrial 3D laser scanners
Tripod-based laser scanners for millimetre-grade reality capture, scan-to-BIM, and existing-conditions documentation.
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What Houston crews tend to buy
Industrial and port work rewards long reach outdoors and a scanner that can walk congested plant interiors.
400 m 
CHC Navigation
CHCNAV RS7
Handheld LiDAR SLAM scanner for fast as-built and BIM reality capture.
LiDAR64-channelRangeup to 40 mRel. accuracy< 1 cm
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CHC Navigation
CHCNAV i93
All-constellation IMU-RTK GNSS rover with tilt compensation.
Channels1,000+RTK (H)~0.8 cmIMUTilt comp.
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Houston workflows
What the work looks like here
Houston work skews industrial. Plant and refinery as-builts, tank and vessel documentation, port and channel infrastructure, and highway reconstruction on programmes like the North Houston Highway Improvement Project all demand capture that survives congested, reflective, live-process environments. That pushes buyers toward long-range terrestrial scanning for structures and handheld SLAM for the spaces a tripod cannot reach.
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Local market
The Houston market
Houston is the densest industrial and petrochemical market in North America, and the survey work reflects it: refinery and plant as-builts, port and channel infrastructure, highway reconstruction, and facility documentation at a scale few metros match. ScanSupply supplies and supports the equipment that work needs across Canada and the US, configured for the tolerances Gulf Coast clients actually specify.
Local fit
Set up for how you work in Texas
Works with your Texas RTK network
Our GNSS receivers speak RTCM and NTRIP and connect to the networks Houston crews already run, including the TxDOT RTN and commercial networks, as well as a base-and-rover setup. Tell us your correction source and we confirm compatibility before you buy.
Houston airspace and Part 107
Commercial drone work in the US falls under FAA Part 107, and much of the Houston core sits in controlled airspace tied to Bush Intercontinental, Hobby and Ellington, where LAANC authorization applies. Port and refinery sites add their own site-access rules. Check current requirements with the FAA and the site operator before operating.
The datum trap in Texas
Two things catch out-of-state crews here. Houston has severe, irreversible land subsidence, with some areas having sunk over nine feet in four decades, so published benchmark elevations in affected areas go stale and the Harris-Galveston Subsidence District monitors it with 95 permanent GPS stations and borehole extensometers. And the City of Houston requires plats to state Texas South Central zone 4204 coordinates with the combined scale factor applied. Hand over raw grid and the application gets deferred.
Correction networks operating in this market
- TxDOT RTN 194 TxDOT reference stations statewide
- NOAA / NGS CORS
- HxGN SmartNet North America
We confirm which network you run and verify the receiver configuration against it before quoting. We do not publish mountpoints or credentials, and we do not claim compatibility we have not checked.
Sources: Harris-Galveston Subsidence District · City of Houston survey and plat requirements · Texas Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors · TxDOT GPS and reference points
Nearby markets
We supply the rest of the United States too
Same equipment, same support. Correction networks and airspace rules change by jurisdiction, so each market has its own page.
Arizona Phoenix Survey equipment in Phoenix → Colorado Denver Survey equipment in Denver → Florida Miami Survey equipment in Miami → New York New York Survey equipment in New York →
Somewhere else in Canada or the United States? Tell us where you are working and we will confirm shipping, support, and lead time for your region.
FAQ
Buying survey gear in Houston
Does subsidence affect survey work in Houston?
Yes, materially. Parts of the Houston region have subsided significantly over past decades, and the effect is irreversible, so older published benchmark elevations in affected areas may no longer be reliable. The Harris-Galveston Subsidence District monitors the region with a permanent GPS network and borehole extensometers. Confirm current control before relying on legacy vertical values.
What coordinate system do Houston plats have to use?
The City of Houston requires plats in Texas South Central zone 4204 State Plane coordinates on NAD83, and specifically requires the combined scale factor to be applied and noted. Montgomery and Liberty counties fall in Texas Central zone 4203 instead. Getting this wrong is a common cause of application deferral.
How does support work if you are not based in Houston?
We do not run a Houston storefront. We supply and support GNSS receivers, scanners and mapping drones for Gulf Coast crews from within North America, with genuine equipment, the full manufacturer warranty, and service arranged through the manufacturer network.
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Get a quote in Houston.
Tell us your workflow and correction network and a ScanSupply specialist gets back to you, typically within one business day, with pricing, configuration options, and availability for the Houston-Galveston region and the Texas Gulf Coast.
- Local correction-network & workflow help
- Genuine equipment, warranty, and support
- Spec sheets, demos, and financing on request
Who you are dealing with
The people specifying your configuration have run this equipment on real sites, not just sold it. That is why a quote comes back with a recommendation and a reason, rather than a line item.
- Authorized CHC Navigation dealer for Canada and the United States.
- North American stock, so availability is a real answer and not a transatlantic guess.
- Every specification sourced. Where a figure is a manufacturer claim under their own test conditions, we say so.